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Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina

Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023

The Guardian: California nearly decriminalizes psychedelics – but governor hits brakes

AP News: Israel says its at war after surprise Hamas attack

CNN: A ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment: Why didn’t Israel’s sophisticated border security stop Saturday’s attack?

Politico: Newsom signs first-in-the-nation corporate climate disclosure bills

Politico: Quakes kill over 2,000 in Afghanistan

The Guardian: ‘Like butter for bears’: the grizzlies who dine on 40,000 moths a day

The Guardian: Cannabis firms are cut off from the US financial system, but relief is in sight

Fox News: California police warn about scam of a ‘dropped $20 bill’

Cleveland: Car crashes, alcohol consumption and vet visits: How legal recreational marijuana has changed Michigan, Illinois and more

NY Times : Opinion: The Hidden Moral Injury of ‘OK Boomer’

NPR: Yes, end-of-life planning is a tough subject. How to talk to your parents about it

NPR: Fossil footprints in New Mexico suggest humans have been here longer than we thought

NPR: It's a global climate solution — if it can get past conspiracy theories and NIMBYs

NY Times : A Texas Community Attracts Migrant Home Buyers, and Republican Ire

The Atlantic: Climate Change Has Opened the Grand Canyon to an Invasive Predator

The Guardian: Louisiana student punished by school for dancing at private party

The Guardian: Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces

Washington Post: Biden border plan faces breakdown amid record influx of families

Washington Post: The rush to map underground fungi networks before they’re gone

Washington Post: ‘Freak of nature’ cedar tree in B.C. is the find of a lifetime for forest explorer

The Guardian: Off-duty US air force officer saves fallen climber on Yosemite’s Half Dome

The Guardian: Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions, says Swedish report

The Oregonian: Photos: Architect Robert Oshatz’s 5 new vertical homes are rising near Portland’s Forest Park

The Guardian: Klan War: how Ulysses S Grant took the fight to the extreme right

The Guardian: ‘I’ve lived many lifetimes’: surfer Owen Wright’s remarkable journey from brain injury to Olympic glory

The Oregonian: Homemade explosive device detonates in McMinnville, sends shrapnel flying

The Oregonian: Drone maker Insitu lays off more workers in Columbia River Gorge

KPTV: 4 Chicago officers among 9 injured in crash while pursuing shooting suspects

KPTV: Oregon seeks $27M for dam repair it says resulted in mass death of Pacific lamprey fish

The Oregonian: Portland needs affordable housing. Churches have unused land. It’s a match made in heaven

The Guardian: ‘Fires everywhere’: the Australian firefighters on the frontline of the new global Flame Age

The Atlantic: The Standard Advice for Concussions Is Wrong

The Guardian: Shot 14 times, no charges for police: family’s grief over death of Cop City activist

The Hill: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran say Israel has only itself to blame for Hamas attacks

The Guardian: Israel-Hamas war live: ‘hundreds of terrorists’ killed, says Israel, as fighting continues in south of country and Gaza

AP News: Largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era opens in New Jersey

AP News: Smith & Wesson celebrates new headquarters opening in gun-friendly Tennessee

LA Times: New California law takes a step toward single-payer healthcare

AP News: The Marines are moving gradually and sometimes reluctantly to integrate women and men in boot camp

LA Times: More than $300 million in unnecessary COVID-19 testing could land Glendale lab owner in prison for 20 years

NBC News: 23andMe user data stolen, targeting Ashkenazi Jewish users

NBC Bay Area: American tourist arrested for smashing ancient ‘idolatrous' Roman statues at Israel museum

NBC Bay Area: California Gov. Newsom signs several laws, including a ban on certain chemicals in food and drinks

LA Times: Newsom signs bill to make California first state in nation to ban “toxic” food additives

LA Times: ‘CannaJefas’ and ‘MotaMamis’ find community at the Latinas in Cannabis Summit

BBC: How did Israeli intelligence fail to stop major attack from Gaza?

BBC: Nevada lithium mine leads to 'green colonialism' accusations

BBC: Afghanistan earthquake: Hundreds dead in powerful quake yesterday

LA Times: Israel and Hamas continue to battle, with at least 600 dead and warnings of a long war

AP News: American mountaineer, local guide dead after avalanches hit Tibetan mountain. Two others are missing